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Charlemagne and Roland: A Novel
Allan Massie
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Hardcover. Fine in fine dustwrapper
A truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) he became the renewer of the Western Empire, which had expired in the 5th century. His dual role as Emperor and King of the Franks provided the historical link between the Imperial dignity and the Frankish kingdoms and later Germany. Today both France and Germany look to him as a founding figure ... Read more
A truly European monarch, Charlemagne was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and for some of that time king of the Lombards, too. From 800, when at Mass on Christmas day in Rome, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) he became the renewer of the Western Empire, which had expired in the 5th century. His dual role as Emperor and King of the Franks provided the historical link between the Imperial dignity and the Frankish kingdoms and later Germany. Today both France and Germany look to him as a founding figure ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
W&N
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780297850694
SKU
KTJ0050246
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About Allan Massie
Allan Massie is the author of eighteen highly praised novels, as well as non-fiction works on Muriel Spark, a study of twelve emperors of ancient Rome, a history of crime in 19th-century Edinburgh and the acclaimed Glasgow: Portraits of a City. Born in Singapore in 1938, he was brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Glenalmond School and Trinity College, ... Read more
Reviews for Charlemagne and Roland: A Novel
"Massie is a class act." THE FIRST POST "A highly sophisticated commentary on the whole idea of how one sets about writing an historical novel."
D.J TAYLOR THE SPECTATOR "[Massie] proves himself to be a modern Mallory, producing enchanting fiction from a mix of historical truth and his own informed imagination...A perfect book for those who like ... Read more
D.J TAYLOR THE SPECTATOR "[Massie] proves himself to be a modern Mallory, producing enchanting fiction from a mix of historical truth and his own informed imagination...A perfect book for those who like ... Read more